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Re: bug in shred?
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: bug in shred? |
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Wed, 05 Mar 2003 20:37:19 +0100 |
Ben Elliston <address@hidden> wrote:
> The man page for shred indicates that -x prevents shred from rounding
> up to the "nearest block size", however without -x, shred fails to
> shred block devices when the device size is not a multiple of the
> block size. The final write() fails and shred subsequently fails.
>
> Perhaps shred should assume -x when the file to shred is not a regular
> file?
Thanks for the report!
That sounds like a good idea.
Look forward to something like that in the next test release.
The latest (just announced on coreutils-announce[1]) is here:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-4.5.9.tar.bz2
(coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)
Jim
[1] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce
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